Top 20 Valee Quotes

I’m hands-on with everything. From music to a car to remodeling a house – anything. People don’t know that stuff, though, ’cause I put all my focus into music and being mysterious a little bit.

I’m an old man. A big weekend for me is Home Depot and a Caesar salad.

I just felt proud of being able to tell my mom that ‘Ye reached out. He saw that I built on my own with a small team.

A lot of times, I like to do nothing.

I’m real easygoing.

I was always into different stuff: custom cars, electrical, construction, tattooing, decor, you name it.

I’d love to be a NASCAR driver because they’re, like, in their forties and fifties.

I rarely like the music I make. It’s like nothing’s good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.

You can’t be an artist while you’re producing, because you’ll be over-critiquing the producer part.

I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten.

I do my own tattoos.

Even when I’m at home, I keep to myself – skateboarding, riding bikes, and stuff in the house.

Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can’t wait on somebody, or it’s taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.

I’ve been on a dog-buying spree. I got two Yorkies and a small teacup Chihuahua.

There were a few labels scouting me, but I felt like G.O.O.D. had my best interest at heart. They gave me the freedom to really do what I want, which is to expand my brand, make great music, and find ways to elevate my sound.

I do like ‘The Truman Show.’

I want to work very hard on music, put out a lot of nice product – good quality product – and then just help people out, like a Gucci Mane, like a Future… like a Prince, like a Michael Jackson.

I’m just not a loud person. I don’t like to showboat. I’m not rowdy.

If I play somebody’s mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it’s too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don’t want somebody saying, ‘That’s enough of this,’ when they listen to my music.